| Year |
Quarter |
Targets and milestones |
Completed |
| 2001-02 |
/ |
*
Obtain and maintain 100 years of the HadCM3 control run, plus possible
additional data as directed by COAPEC team (< 1 Tb) |
 |
| *
Handle authorisation and access to this data
|
|
| *
Maintain COAPEC related documentation in the form of web pages
|
|
| *
Provide support for coupled atmosphere ocean modelling on Beowulf clusters
|
|
| 2 |
Extraction of first half of the 1000-year HadCM3 control run |
|
| Production of COAPEC workspace via CAST |
|
| 3 |
Achieve 75% completion of 1000-year HadCM3 control run archive |
|
| Extraction of data from HadAM3 100-year run and provision
to Tim Osbourn (UEA) |
|
| Extraction of data subsets from the HadCM3 100-year run and provision
to Arnold Taylor (Plymouth) |
|
| Provision of conversion and subsetting tools to the COAPEC community |
|
| 4 |
Replacement of corrupt files of 100-year HadCM3 archive |
|
| Continued extraction of missing data from 1000-year HadCM3 control run
|
|
| 2002-03 |
/ |
*
Ongoing maintenance of COAPEC archives
|
|
| 1 |
Set up of a JANET backup connection to continue the transfer of the
1000-year HadCM3 dataset from the Met Office
|
|
| 1000-year HadCM3 dataset 87% complete
|
|
| 2 |
Set up of an automated system for cataloguing data files from the HadCM3
100-year control run, checking their integrity and retrieving uncorrupted
versions |
|
| *
Report to SC
|
|
| 4 |
1000-year HadCM3 dataset 95% complete
|
|
| *
Report to SC
|
|
| 2003-04 |
/ |
*
Ongoing maintenance of COAPEC archives
|
|
| *
Update home page
|
|
| *
Further details to be negotiated
|
|
| 1 |
Ongoing liaison with Met Office to fill gaps in 1000-year HadCM3 data set
|
|
| Ongoing liaison with Hadley Centre to develop software allowing direct
data file ingestion into LAS
|
|
| 2 |
1000-year HadCM3 dataset 98% complete |
|
| Availability to COAPEC users of subsets of the 1000-year HadCM3 dataset
that have been checked |
|
| *
Implementation of COAPEC LAS
|
|
| *
Provision of ECMWF HindCast (Seasonal Forecast) data, including file
naming convention and documentation
|
|
| 3 |
1000-year HadCM3 dataset 100% complete |
|
| Integrity checks performed on 1000-year HadCM3 dataset and complete
availability to COAPEC users |
|
| *
Provision of LAS virtual data implementation plan
|
|
| 4 |
BADC contribution to COAPEC newsletter |
|
| Re-extraction of defective ocean temperature data files from the
Met Office |
|
| *
Implementation of virtual data sets into the LAS
|
|
| 2004-05 |
/ |
*
Maintenance of COAPEC archives
|
|
| 2 |
*
6-month report to SciC
|
|
| 4 |
*
6-month report to SciC
|
|
| *
Targets and milestones printed in blue and marked with an asterisk appear
in the NERC-BADC SLA Annex of the corresponding financial year.
Until 2001-02 included, no quarter milestone was stated in the SLA, but
only general targets and deliverables for the year.
|
| APM | | Assistant Programme Manager |
| ASciC | | Assistant Science Coordinator |
| BADC | | British Atmospheric Data Centre |
| BODC | | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| BSCW | | Basic Support for Cooperative Work |
| CC | | Climate Change |
| CCLRC | | Council of the Central Laboratories of
the Research Councils (UK) |
| CF | | Climate and Forecasting |
| CLAUS | | Cloud Archive User Service |
| COAPEC | | Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and
European Climate |
| CWAVE | | Cloud & Water Vapour Experiment for
Model Comparisons at the CCLRC Chilbolton Observatory |
| CWVC | | Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate |
| DARC | | Data Assimilation Research Centre |
| DMP | | Data Management Plan |
| ENSO | | El Niño Southern Oscillation |
| EOEF | | Earth Observation Enabling Fund |
| ESA | | European Space Agency |
| GOMOS | | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation
of Stars |
| HDF | | Hierarchical Data Format |
| ICARTT | | International Consortium for
Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation |
| ISCCP | | International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project |
| ITOP | | Intercontinental Transport of Ozone and
Precursors |
| LAS | | Live Access Server |
| MERIS | | Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
|
| MIPAS | | Michelson Interferometer for Passive
Atmospheric Sounding |
| NASA | | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(USA) |
| NEOEG | | NERC Earth Observation Expert Group |
| NERC | | Natural Environment Research Council (UK) |
| PA | | Programme Administrator |
| PCo | | Programme Coordinator |
| PI | | Principal Investigator |
| PM | | Programme Manager |
| QUEST | | Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System
|
| RDC | | RAPID Data Centre |
| SAGE | | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
| SC | | Steering Committee |
| SCIAMACHY | | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer
for Atmospheric Chartography |
| SciC | | Science Coordinator |
| SLA | | Service Level Agreement |
| SO | | Superintending Officer |
| SOC | | Southampton Oceanographic Centre (UK) |
| SOLAS | | Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study |
| Tb | | Terrabyte (1012 bytes) |
| TBD | | To be decided |
| URGENT | | Urban Regenaration and the Environment |
| UTLS | | Upper Troposphere - Lower Stratosphere |
| WHOI | | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(Massachusetts, USA) |
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